San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-11
EDITORIAL BREvrTIEs.

IT Is no longer necessary TO wave the
bloody shirt. Cleveland has unfured
the old battle flags.
IT is now in order for Mr.. MoGlynn to
make his political record as private
citizen. The result will be watched
with interest.
The seats are being cushioned for that
anti-prophibltiOn rally on the Goth inst.
1t will discount anything the Fort has
tackled since the Gazette took to the
fence.
EAGLE Pass had a rousing 4th Gel
ebratiOn and so it comes to pass that
the Pass Times" devOtes six columns
10 the pastimes OF that occasion. San
Antonio passed this time, but it is to be
hoped that she will not pass next time,
and celebrate instead.
A TEXAS farmer speaking of his con-
dtiOn remarked sententiOusly. 81 am
poor. because ! buy more than / sell"
That Lone Star sage struck the exact
center OF the bulls eye. Now let Texas
farmers change the order Of their farm
ing, so that they will sell more than
they buy, and the transition is made
from poverty to progress.
QUEEN kAPIOLANI had needs hurry her
return to her Hawaiian Kingdom or she
will lind but few OF her royal hOnOrs and
prerOgatives left. The disgruntled ma
lives are snatching Kslakua bald head d
Black Emma seems to have made the
most of her sunset hours at the royal
court OF the empress Of all the midas.
The reports of the LIGHT locals on
the condition of San Pedro creek seem
to have stirred the dizziness along the
banks OF that classic stream. The cor
respondent who calls for remedies in a
morning journal seems to forget that it
is the province of local journalist to
point out municipal evils and not to
provide remedies therefor.
CUNEY did not get the aldermanship of
his ward at the late municipal election,
but the white stevedOres Of the Island
city have had to take a back seat in the
presence OF the COlOred bretheren, and
Iris is q substantial triumph for Mr..
quincy, whose hand is never backward
IN coming forward to aid the COlOred
people OF any section.
The Sword and Shield, of jackson,
Mississippi, formerly edited by young
Gambrell, whom Col. Hamilton shot for
SANDER, is now edited by the reverend
father OF the young man who paid the
penalty for his abusive attacks upon
citizen. Under the new management
of the father the photograph of the dead
editor, the son, Is offered as n subscrip-
ton premium. This fact Is probably
without a parallel in the history of
journalism, even the journalism OF pro-
~ DitiOn.
ONE by one the conservatives are
ieding place 10 GisdstOHe's Gandi-
dates. His followers are quietly filling
the seats in commons recently held
down by Salisbury conservatives, the
union liberals are finding increasing
evidences of the strength of the home
rule party throughout all England and
the Overtures for a union with Glad
stone are growing more and more di-
rect. The coercion bill may pass COM
mems, but 1t Is dead and damned by the
sentiment Of England, and will never be
enforced.
The movement for paper mill in this
city takes shape. San Antonio will not
wait TO take the cOncensus of state Opin-
ion before entering upon the work. The
parties having the matter under way
are certain that the market Is ample
aud the facilities unsurpassed II they
cannot compete in quality and price they
will not expect to hold the market
They are confident that they can IN
derbid all foreign manufacture as they
have the raw material in abundance, as
cheap labor as is FOUND in these United
States, and a home market. If with
these advantages they cannot successful
IL bid for Texas trade they will graceful
ly throw up the sponge.
The editor OF the daily Iowa indie
pendent who writes to Texas Cen
tleman," to the effect that 1.-THE republi-
can Journals OF the state are all in favor
Of prohibition, for II is the creation Of
the party" is certainly independent Of
all truth telling. When prohibition was
under discussion in Iowa ten years since
the sblest republican journals in the
state opposed 1t. with the possible eX-
ceptiOn Of the Des Moines Register At
that time, 1876, the republican majority
10 the state was more than 60.0OO. To-
day it is less than 10000, because Iowa
have become prohibition,
and vet the Independent says that pro-
hIbitiOn created the republican party In
Iowa. The widest vspOrings Of folly
never Quilted that statement.
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